Chapter 415: Won the Battle of Malacca
The Dutch did not have bayonets.
When they saw the Ming army rushing towards with bayonets, they either resisted with the butts of their rifles or drew their swords to fight.
The formation of each fight was chaotic, the Ming army charged with bayonets, the horizontal team was neat and imposing, half a step between each other, which could form a bayonet wall, so that the enemy could not avoid it.
A row of bayonets stabbed up, and a row of enemies fell screaming.
The Dutch infantry behind saw the bloody and had no chance of victory, so they abandoned their weapons and fled.
As soon as the Dutch fled, the Japanese army was also cunning, and hurriedly fought and retreated.
Of course, the Ming-Portuguese coalition army would prefer to fight the weak.
So they chased the Dutch army and killed them, brought them to the ground, and captured their colonel.
The Japanese army fled to the shore on the side of the house.
But there aren't enough boats!
Most of the Ataka ships were sent out to cover the Galen warship, and in addition to the people on board, there were more than 7,000 Japanese soldiers on shore, and there were less than 50 Ataka ships left to sit on it.
Some of the soldiers were still arranging for an orderly boarding of the ship, and some of the soldiers couldn't wait, or saw that they might not be able to go up from the back of their position, so they simply shot black guns at the officers.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out to bring down the officer and the man in front.
"Get down! Go down!"
The fanatical Japanese soldiers were even proud and began to seize the opportunity to get on the ship.
The Ming army took advantage of the chaos to pursue and kill, causing the enemy to add to the chaos, and in the end, only about 30 Anzhai boats escaped from the shore. The rest of the ships were destroyed by the Ming army, and the enemy troops had no way to escape except to surrender.
However, the Dutch marines scattered and fled, taking advantage of the confusion of the Japanese army to attract attention, and hurried to the Galen battleship for help.
The Ming army could not annihilate the remaining warships in the Netherlands at sea, whether it was a new warship, a centipede ship or a Canton ship, it was already scarred, in order to maintain control of the next sea and not be taken advantage of by other forces other than the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, so it only shelled for the time being, and did not approach the death battle.
Cohen, the governor of the East India Company, sent more than a dozen small boats to rescue more than 500 people while letting the Galen warship fire at a distance from afar.
There were still many Dutch people who did not have time to board the ship, so they had to surrender obediently to the Ming-Portuguese coalition army.
These captives were useful, and they were too valuable to the sparsely populated Netherlands, so Cai Fuyi decided to keep these captives in good hands, and it would be useful to negotiate, ask for ransom, and exchange prisoners later.
Cai Fuyi is still alive.
But an arm is missing.
He had broken an arm when he was bombarded intensively before, and became a one-armed governor.
When my wreckage turned into a front, although the two battleships were shattered, he hugged the mast and was rescued by the Ming army.
After being rescued, he amputated, disinfected, bandaged, and continued to control the Strait of Malacca at sea with one arm.
Seeing that he could not turn the tables around, Cohen had to flee west with his fleet, and then south to his strongholds in Sumatra and Java.
After the panic calmed down, Cohen sent people to contact the Netherlands mainland, and on the other hand, he sent people to find out whether Batavia was safe.
There was no pursuit on the side of the Ming army.
First, the loss was very large, almost all of the 20 or so warships left by the Portuguese were scrapped, and the warships of the Ming army were also very damaged, and it took more than half a year to repair.
Second, there is a more important task, which is to completely control the Malay Peninsula.
The battleship was badly damaged and could not pursue the Dutch battleship, so Cai Fuyi decided to follow Wang Hongyu's statement: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend people; If anyone sins against me, I will offend."
Wang Hongyu had foreseen this matter in advance, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to establish prestige in Southeast Asia.
Since Johor used the power of the whole country to invade Singapore and Malacca, let him pay the price, do nothing, simply destroy Johor, take all the Malay Peninsula as his own, and then continue to attack the Kingdom of Johor.
The king of Johor was killed by Hou Cai, and the defeated army fled back in pieces, and the Ming army was in a hurry to rescue the Malacca fortress, but the force was limited and did not continue to pursue.
The Johor royal family and other nobles were originally against the king, and they blatantly violated the Ming Dynasty despite everyone's opposition, and since the king was killed in battle, they supported the king's cousin as the king on the grounds that the king's son was still young.
The new king and the nobles knew that Johor was far from being an opponent of the Ming Dynasty, and that they could barely fight a war by relying on the Dutch navy, but now the Dutch people had been beaten away by the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese had fled, so they could only send envoys to sue for peace.
[In view of the general environment,
However, Johor defined the invasion of Singapore as the annexation of the lost 100-year-old territory, and never recognized it as an invasion of the Ming Dynasty; Da Ming took out the contract to receive Star City from Portugal, explaining that the matter had nothing to do with the third party, Johor.
The two sides spoke of a stalemate on issues of principle at the outset.
Neither side will give up the issue of principle, and the negotiations will not be able to continue. Johor did not admit to the invasion of Singapore, and the other conditions they put forward were rejected by Chua Fu one by one.
Cai Fuyi also ordered the Kingdom of Johor to surrender, as a subsidiary country of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the Ming army moved, the Kingdom of Johor would be burned, and the Kingdom of Johor would no longer exist.
As soon as the new king of Johor came to power, he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and he was afraid that the royal family would not do it, so he had to convene the royal family and ministers to discuss.
The royal family did not agree at first, and the ministers were all agents of the nobility, and even the puppets of the Netherlands.
They stood firmly against surrender on the side of the aristocracy and the Netherlands, and were almost 100 percent pro-militant.
They believe that the Ming Dynasty now has only 10,000 soldiers to fight, and it is a tired army, and the new troops will not be able to arrive in a short time. Johor fights on its own soil, and all the people of appropriate age go to war, and can also organize 30,000 regular infantry and tens of thousands of second-line infantry.
Johor, with three times the strength of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the upper and lower levels work together to defend their homeland, they will definitely be able to drive the tired army of the Ming Dynasty into the sea.
As for the Ming invasion of Johor, tens of thousands of second-line infantry and the people of the whole country will rise up to resist, and the Kingdom of Johor will fight to the death!
Then you can only die.
Wang Hongyu had expected Johor to join the alliance between the Netherlands and the Japanese before the war, and the second group of Ming troops had been on their way for nearly a month, and with new weapons, they would arrive in a few days as planned.
Cai Fuyi did not rush to attack Johor, repairing and building siege equipment, and five days later, more than 200 merchant ships loaded with 10,000 Ming battalion soldiers, guards and military supplies arrived in Malacca.
After the landing, the Kingdom of Johor, which had already received the news, must not allow the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty to gain a foothold on the shore, and the 15,000 Johor infantry that had been assembled in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula soon reached the seashore.
They had to wipe out the Ming reinforcements when they were at their most exhausted, otherwise the country of Johor would be in danger. The new king and his ministers will also use a great victory to stabilize the hearts of the people and muster up the determination of the people to fight to the death.
The Ming Dynasty is also trying to really expand the influence of the Malay Peninsula.
Since he wants to keep fighting, then destroy it.